Creating Universal Ghost

If you want to use Norton Ghost 2003 to create an image of a PC's primary partition you will find it has 2 serious limitations:1- The USB support driver they use (from Iomega) can only be installed in USB1 or USB2 mode (not both), and it is not universal - it didn't recognize my external USB IBM mobile HD .2- You can't create a Ghost bootable CD - only a floppy. How can you clone a newly bought laptop, most of which don't have a floppy anymore?Here's How to:1- create a Ghost floppy with USB support (1 or 2 - it won't matter later)2- download 2 files kxlrw40an.exe and mhairu.zipCODE

From the first file (Panasonic driver for a USB CDRW) you will need the file usbaspi.sys found under "F2H" sub directory after extraction of the downloaded archive. From the second archive you need di1000dd.sys3- Copy these 2 files to the USB folder on the Ghost floppy, and delete any other files in that folder. Also delete the file guest.exe from the floppy's root.4- And finaly:Edit the AUTOEXEC.BAT file - delete the line: guest.exeAnd edit CONFIG.SYS - delete all entries and enter:Device=usb\USBASPI.SYS /v /e /O /UDevice=usb\Di1000dd.SYSLASTDRIVE = Z

That's it. You can now boot with this floppy and have full USB support so you can create the image on an external USB drive.

If you want to create a bootable CD you can use Nero:Choose to create a "CD-ROM (boot)" from the wizard, under Boot tab leave the default "bootable logical drive: as A:\ . Insert your Ghost floppy to the drive, drag all the files from the floppy to "New compilation" and burn. You now have a bootable Ghost CD that even Symantec doesn't have..